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Cities in Chile, worst air first, day by day

Each measured city's average over the 30 days to every day since January 2023, worst first. Find your own city to follow it through the race, or keep to one country.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to16 Jul 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Chile for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 16 Jul 2025: Osorno 92.0 µg/m³, Nacimiento 90.0 µg/m³ and Linares 86.3 µg/m³.

  1. 1OsornoLos Lagos Region92.0
  2. 2NacimientoBiobio90.0
  3. 3LinaresMaule Region86.3
  4. 4CoyhaiqueAysén86.1
  5. 5Puerto VarasLos Lagos Region78.6
  6. 6VillarricaAraucania73.9
  7. 7HualpénBiobio69.2
  8. 8TemucoAraucania68.0
  9. 9CuricóMaule Region68.0
  10. 10LajaBiobio67.6
  11. 11ValdiviaLos Ríos Region66.0
  12. 12San CarlosÑuble63.4
  13. 13TalaganteSantiago Metropolitan62.5
  14. 14RancaguaO'Higgins Region60.8
  15. 15RengoO'Higgins Region58.3
  16. 16CuranilahueBiobio57.7
  17. 17Los ÁngelesBiobio57.1
  18. 18ChillánÑuble57.1
  19. 19TalcaMaule Region56.5
  20. 20La UniónLos Ríos Region55.5

+ 27 more cities, 54.3 µg/m³ and below

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GoodModerateSensitive groupsUnhealthyVery unhealthyHazardousWHO 24-hour guideline, 15 µg/m³Fades where it stood: not counted that day

A city's number is its average over the 30 days, shown only when 21 of them were measured (5 of 7 on the 7-day race), the same minimum as the 30- and 7-day boards. A city whose monitors go quiet fades out where it stood rather than sliding down, so a gap never reads as cleaner air. Some large countries are thin or missing because their monitors' licences don't allow reuse. How we rank.

Not covered: the government monitoring networks of China and Turkey, which publish only on their own websites; we are building the readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.